From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2002-04-10T18:16:12+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby + Creating and extending XML documents

Oliver Beddows wrote:


> - Is it not better to USE the class rather than inherit from it?


I don't know. But if there's a document which is in a subcategory of a 
generic XML document, subclassing Document seems to reflect this well.


> - Would it be quicker to make the 'masterDocument' an actual xml file. Then 	
> load it using REXML as a DOM Tree, adding, changing, removing nodes from 			
> there on? 


I meant both:

xml_string = open(infile_name,'r') do |file|
   file.read
end
md = MasterDocument.new xml_string


> - Also, will loading a library such as REXML cause any significant overhead?


Try it; it mainly depends on what you do with it.

Anyways: TIMTOWDI

Tobi